When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

Lead exposure remains a public health issue around the world, even after decades of remediation efforts. According to the ...

Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...

Our brains evolved for complex thought and language - but the same genes that made us smarter may have increased mental illness risk.

This week, researchers reported the discovery of four Late Bronze Age stone megastructures likely used for trapping herds of ...

A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo sapiens may have emerged at least half a million years earlier than previously thought. The skull, known as Yunxian 2, was discovered in Hubei Province ...

Outlining the problem / P. A. Mellars, M. J. Aitken and C. B. Stringer -- Uranium-series dating and the origin of modern man / Henry P. Schwarcz -- Luminescence dating relevant to human origins / M. J ...